Process for ornamenting textile materials and products therefrom



Patented Nov. '3, 1931 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE ALBERT BODMER, or wATTwIL, SWITZERLAND, ssIGNoR To HEBEBLEIN & co. A. G.,

- OFYWATTWIL, SWITZERLAND, A c0RroRATIoN or SWITZERLAND PROCESS FOR ORNAMENTING TEXTILE MATERIALS AND PRODUCTS THEBEFROM No Drawing. Application filed September 14, 1929,

This invention relates to a process for ornamenting textile materials and particularly to a process for production of brocade effects on woven materials; and to the materials resulting from such processes.

One of the objects of the invention is to provide a simple efficient process of thekind described for producing the desired effects using relatively inexpensive starting materials and requiring only simple apparatus for carrying out the process. Another object of the invention is to produce a product simulating the brocade but at a much lower cost than brocades can be produced.

It is known that patterns cambe produced upon fabrics as in gofiering by exerting local pressure thereon. Such decorative portions are distinguished from the other portions of the fabric by hollow raised portions which appear in relief.

It has now been found that a hitherto unknown improvement in such effects obtained by pressing may be produced by special procedures. For this purpose one produces a fabric in which yarns are present which have previously been treated with a preparation providing a coating of binding material and pigment. If such material is then locally pressed by a suitable pressing means, the prepared yarns because of their pigmentand binder-contents, fill the interstices between the adjacent threads, so that on the particular pressed portions a closed surface re sults which diflers markedly from the rest of the material.

The preparation of the yarns to be used for this purpose consists in applying to the material suitable pigments by means of a bind ing material. As a binding means glue, rubber, lacquers of various composition, for example, of nitro-cellulose or acetyl cellulose can be used. As pigments, mineral and earth colors, lake colors and metal powders may be employed. The latter have shown themselves particularly efi'ective in use. Cellulose lacquers have advantage over the ordinary binders because of their greater stability.

The prepared yarns can be included in the surface of textile materials in any desired Serial No. 392,730, and iii Germany July 10, 1929.

manner. For example, they may be included in woven fabrics, embroidery, knitted goods, ribbons, etc., and particularly in combination with unprepared yarns made" up of fibers as desired. Weavings of this kind for which the present invention is particularly devised may consist, for example, in the direction of the warp ofordinary natural or artificial fibers, in the other direction (that is, the filler), of prepared fibers or vice versa. Or the fabric may contain in one or the other or in both directions alternatively both the prepared and unprepared yarns, whereby the yarns singly, in pairs or in multiple may be arranged along side one another. One may also'produce structures which contain only yarns prepared in the same manner or yarns prepared in difierent manners. The yarns to] be prepared may consist of chosen, natural or artificial fibers. The pressure effects are produced in the usual manner by pressing with plates or roller-like forms. According to the kind of yarns employed and the effect desired, the pressing may be carried out with greater or less pressure. In many cases it is advantageous to work with heated pressing devices whereby the temperature must be adjusted to the material employed.

Ewamples of procedure 'so-called gold bronze powder. A pattern is pressed in the prepared fabric by passing it through a goffer calender by means of a goffer roll, heated to approximately 130 C.

The process described is a simple efiicient one which may be carried out by inexpensive apparatus and employing inexpensive material. The effects produced are pleasing and the cost of the finished material is of course much lower than that of the usual brocade.

Thus while I have described my improvements in detail and with respect to certain preferred forms, I do not desire to be limited to such details or forms since, as will be noticed by thoseskilled in the art, after understanding my invention many changes and modificationsmay be made and the invention embodied in widely different forms without departing from the spirit and scope thereof in its broader aspects, and I desire to cover all modifications, forms and improvements coming within the scope of any one or more of the appended claims.

- Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A process for ornamenting textile material which comprises taking a woven fabric having interstices between the threads thereof and containing a substance capable of filling interstices thereof, applying a patternin device to said fabric and causing said substance to fill interstices in portions of the coated threads forming a portion having open interstices and another portion having a colored binder pressed thereinto to fill its interstices to form a desired pattern.

7 .'A woven textile material having warp and filler threads, one set of threads being coated with a colored binder capable of filla,

interstices in a desired pattern.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

- ALBERT BODMER.

fabric corresponding to the pattern while terial which comprises coating threads of- 5 the material with a colored binder, said binder being capable of filling interstices in fabric woven from said thread, weaving said thread into a fabric, applyin a patterning device under pressure to the abric and causing the binder to fill interstices in the fabric thereby producing a closed shiny surface where the design is impressed on a background of fabric with its meshes or interstices still open.

4. A process for ornamenting woven fabric including the usual sets of warp and filler threads which comprises coating the warp.

threads with a pi ented binder, said binder-being ca able 0 filling interstices in fabric woven wit said warp, weaving said fabric including said warp, goffering the fabric and fabric thereby roducing a closed shiny surface where the esign is impressed on a background of fabric with its meshes orinter- Ystices still open.

5. A woven textile material includingcoa t causing the binder tofill interstices in the ed threads forming a portion having open interstices and another'portion having its in- .terstices filled by said binder in a desired pattern. 7

6. A woven textile material comprising 

